This is how much Casey Neistat traveled over the last 12 months

I’m usually pretty late to the game when it comes to mainstream media and trends, and it was only last March that I first discovered Casey Neistat on YouTube. His style of storytelling combined with some pretty epic video editing skills have been entertaining millions of people for over 15 years now, so I did feel a bit behind the curve when I first discovered him. And I’m glad that I did – the content that Casey produces is so good, and his creativity so contagious that I can’t help but to feel overwhelmingly inspired to crank up the quality of my own videos better after watching one of his. He’s that inspiring.

Casey doing what he does best: telling great stories.

Unfortunately, those of you who’ve been following Casey for the past year or so are probably just as crushed as I am about his recent decision to stop vlogging so that he can focus on “what’s next”. What exactly that is is anyone’s guess, but his daily vlogs were so fun and creative that I looked forward to each and every one of them with great anticipation. I’m going to miss those 10-minute nuggets of quality entertainment every day.

One of the things I like most about Casey is his passion for travel. That love of travel combined with his great storytelling skills have made for some very entertaining videos over the past two years, and the thing I find most interesting about his style of filming is that he’s actually a better trip-reporter than 99% of other trip-reporters I’ve seen on YouTube. And he didn’t even try to make good trip reports – he simply filmed the process of traveling, edited it in a way that only Casey Neistat can, and ended up with some really great content. For example, check out this recent video he made of his first class experience on an Emirates A380 from SYD to DXB – I can only dream of making content this good:

The way that he just sticks the camera in his face, says what he needs to say with no shame, and tells the complete story of being on that flight is really inspiring. Sometimes I tend to overthink all of my own videos (in both filming and editing), and if there’s one thing I’ve learned from Casey, it’s the value of just doing whatever it takes to get the shot – without overthinking it.

Tracking Casey Neistat’s travels over a one year period

Casey was so good at documenting his travel in his vlogs that it was pretty easy to identify every single route, airline, and aircraft that he flew. This was something that I appreciated right from the beginning, and the stats freak in me wasted no time in creating a spreadsheet to document his travels. At first I was only doing it for fun, just to be able to tally up the miles he’s flown and the airlines he experienced. This was done completely out of my own jealousy for the amount of traveling he was doing, and I was having lots of fun plotting all this data out into fun charts and graphs in order to get a better look at his travel patterns.

My ultimate goal was to track each year of Casey’s travels and post that data once-yearly here on SANspotter.com. The fact that I had only discovered him during March of this year meant that I had to do some backtracking which required watching all of his videos from January 1st to make sure that I had all of his flights documented for the year. Then, come January 1st 2017, I was going to compile all of that data and post it here on the blog.

But then he quit vlogging. That means he is no longer filming his trips in such great detail and I found myself unable to finish this little project of mine. So not only was I crushed when he stopped vlogging, I felt a bit defeated when I realized that I would be unable to document a full year of his travels! What to do, what to do…

Long story short, I decided to backtrack a little further to November 2015 and document all of his travels since that time. That meant I would have data from November 2015 to November 2016 to post here, which was still true to my goal of tracking one year of Casey Neistat’s travels. Ready to see some data? Read on!

Casey Niestat’s flight log

Here is the spreadsheet that I used to track Casey’s flights over a one-year period (November 2015 to November 2016), based on what he showed in his videos on YouTube. It’s kind of long, so get ready to do some scrolling!

Nov 10

SFO-JFK

jetBlue

A321

Mint

Nov 9

JFK-SFO

jetBlue

A321

Mint

Nov 3

SLC-JFK

jetBlue

A320

Economy

Nov 3

LGB-SLC

jetBlue

A320

Economy

Nov 1

JFK-LAX

American

A321T

First Class

Oct 27

DFW-EWR

American

MD-83

First Class

Oct 26

LGA-DFW

Delta

E170

First Class

Oct 17

WST-TEB

Wheels Up

King Air 350i

Assume these were TEB/WST airports – not totally sure but safe to assume

Oct 15

TEB-WST

Wheels Up

King Air 350i

Private/chartered plane to Connecticut with Wheels Up

Oct 10

TEB-PHL

Lear Jet

Free ride to PHL on a private jet just for the heck of it

Oct 6

LAX-JFK

jetBlue

A321

Mint

Oct 3

IAH-LAX

American Eagle

E175

First Class

Oct 1

JFK-IAH

jetBlue

A320

Economy – window seat/aisle seat/all over the place dealing w/Francine

Business Class – was supposed to be on a UA 763 but flight was cancelled

Aug 18

LGA-IAH

United

737-800?

First Class / could have been a 739 – too hard to tell

Aug 17

SFO-EWR

United

757-200

BusinessFirst – after driving Owen cross country to San Francisco

Jul 24

YVR-JFK

Cathay Pacific

777-300

First Class (upgrade)

Jul 22

JFK-YVR

Cathay Pacific

777-300

Business Class

Jul 1

PUJ-JFK

jetBlue

A320

Economy

Jun 28

JFK-PUJ

jetBlue

A320

Economy

Jun 27

LAX-JFK

jetBlue

A321

Mint? None of this was filmed but safe to assume

Jun 22

JFK-LAX

jetBlue

A321

Mint

Jun 17

SFO-JFK

jetBlue

A321

Mint

Jun 15

JFK-SFO

jetBlue

A321

Mint

Jun 7

BFS-EWR

United

757-200

BusinessFirst

Jun 4

EWR-BFS

United

757-200

BusinessFirst

May 28

AMS-JFK

KLM

747-400

Business Class / upper deck / missed BA flights, was rebooked on this one

May 25

LHR-AMS

British Airways

A320

Club Europe

May 24

JFK-LHR

American

777-300

First Class

May 19

SFO-JFK

jetBlue

A321

Mint (not the single suite)

May 17

EWR-SFO

United

777-200

BusinessFirst (rear facing seat)

May 9

SFO-JFK

jetBlue

A321

Mint (not the single suite)

May 8

CUN-SFO

United

737-900

First Class

May 6

EWR-CUN

United

737-900

First Class

Apr 30

LAX-JFK

jetBlue

A321

Mint

Apr 27

JFK-LAX

jetBlue

A320

no Mint (aircraft downgrade)

Apr 17

NCE-JFK

Delta

767-300

Business Class

April 14

CDG-NCE

Air France

A320?

Business Class

April 13

JFK-CDG

Air France

A380

Business Class

Apr 3

MSY-JFK

Delta

A320?

First Class

Apr 1

LAX-AUS

Southwest

737-700?

Mar 31

SFO-LAX

American

737-800?

Economy

Mar 28

JFK-SFO

jetBlue

A321

Mint

Mar 23

LHR-JFK

British Airways

A380?

Club World

Mar 22

CPT-LHR

British Airways

747-400

Club World

Mar 15

LHR-CPT

British Airways

747-400

First Class

Mar 14

JFK-LHR

British Airways

747-400

Club World

Mar 13

AUS-EWR

United

ERJ-175

First Class

Mar 10

DFW-AUS

American

737-800

First Class

Mar 10

EWR-DFW

American

757-200?

First Class

Mar 1

LAX-JFK

American

A321T

Business Class

Feb 25

JFK-LAX

American

A321T

First Class

Feb 20

MIA?-JFK

American?

757-200?

First Class

Feb 20

PTY-MIA?

American?

737-800?

First Class

Feb 18

MIA-PTY

American

737-800

First Class

Feb 18

JFK-MIA

American

757-200

First Class

Feb 4

SFO-JFK

American

A321T

Business Class

Feb 2

JFK-SFO

American

A321T

Business Class

Jan 22

SFO-JFK

American

A321T

Business Class

Jan 20

JFK-SFO

American

A321T

Business Class

Jan 17

FLL?-JFK

Delta

?

?

Jan 16

JFK-MIA

American

777-200?

Business Class

Dec 30

LAX-JFK

jetBlue

A321

Mint

Dec 16

JFK-LAX

jetBlue

A321

Mint

Dec 5

FLL-JFK

jetBlue

A320

Economy

Dec 4

HAV-MIA

Havana Air

737-800

Economy / Chartered aircraft / Eastern Air livery

Dec 1

MIA-HAV

Havana Air

737-800

Economy / Chartered aircraft / Eastern Air livery

Dec 1

JFK-MIA

American

A320?

First Class

Please note that there are some missing pieces in this spreadsheet – anything labeled with a question mark (?) means that I’m not 100% confident about that piece of data, and it was just a best guess based on what I could see in the video. Also, there was a 1-week period in late August when he and Candice (his wife) traveled to Europe and essentially took the week off. They did a lot of flying during that period, and not much of it was filmed, so there are some unfortunate gaps there.

So now that we have a mostly-compete flight log documenting one year of Casey’s travels, let’s break down some of data and pull out the interesting bits:

Miles flown: 198,361

Total number of flights: 85

Personal trips: 19

Business trips: 57

Airlines flown: 17

First class: 27 times

Business class: 42 times

Economy class: 14 times

Most flown airline (by number of flights): jetBlue – 23 flights total

Most flown airline (by miles flown): jetBlue – 46,440 miles

Most frequent route: LAX-JFK / SFO-JFK (tie – 6 times each)

Longest segment: DXB-SYD

Shortest segment: TEB-PHL

And now, let’s have a look at some charts and graphs showing some additional flight data:

Casey’s top airports and airlines over the past 12 months. JFK and jetBlue are tops, which isn’t surprising considering that he’s based in New York.

Casey’s top aircraft and routes over the past 12 months. The A321 and transcon routes (JFK-LAX/SFO) are tops due all those business trips to the west coast on jetBlue.

Casey’s overall travel distances per route / airline over the last 12 months.

He’s done a fair bit of interesting travel over the past year, hasn’t he? Casey’s not a true road warrior by any means (at least in flyertalk terms), but the amount that he travels is something that I can only dream of doing myself. And when it comes right down to it, the 198,361 miles he flew over the past year seems to be the perfect balance of fun vs. work. That amount would definitely be enough for me to quench my own wanderlust, and I’m pretty sure that anything less wouldn’t be as fun – but anything more might be too much.

It was really interesting and fun to track Casey Neistat for a year and compile all of his interesting travel data, and I’m totally bummed that I won’t be able to do it anymore. Thanks for letting us come along with you Casey. It was fun while it lasted!

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